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Bastille Day rites for French patriot-priest killed by Nazi mine in Normandy. American, French and British flags fly at half staff outside St. Nicholas Church, Barfleur, where final rites are held for Abbe Jules Gaslonde, French patriot-priest killed by a Nazi land mine laid by the Germans in their retreat from the Normandy area. The Abbe, who once defied Nazi orders by hanging the Tricolor in his ...

Bastille Day rites for French patriot-priest killed by Nazi mine in Normandy. Fishing boats in the harbor of Barfleur fly Tricolors at half mast as the Norman village commemorates the death of a French patriot and priest, Abbe Jules Gaslonde, as well as the 155th anniversary of French independence on Bastille Day, July 14, 1944. Abbe Gaslonde, former vicar of a village near St. Lo who defied Nazi orders ...

Opsporing, vernietiging van munitie, landmijnen etc. m.b.v. Duitse soldaten. Danger! Mines. A party of journalists arrives at the ferry at Hoek van Holland to visit the mine fields. They will be guided by German officers. These men work enthusiastically to clear away the mines because they hope that they will return to the heimat when the work is done.

Bastille Day rites for French patriot-priest killed by Nazi mine in Normandy. Normandy fishermen carry the casket of Abbe Jules Gaslonde up the steps of St, Nicholas Church in Barfleur. The priest was killed by a Nazi land mine while returning on his bicycle from administering final rites to three civilians fatally wounded by another mine left in the village by the Germans in their retreat from advancing ...

Bastille Day rites for French patriot-priest killed by Nazi mine in Normandy. Pallbearers lower the coffin of Abbe Jules Gaslonde, French patriot-priest killed by a Nazi land mine, into a grave in the churchyard of St. Nicholas Church in Barfleur, Normandy. The Abbe, who once defied Nazi orders by hanging the Tricolor in his church, was killed while returning from administering rites to three French ...

Red equipment captured by Finns. A Russian parachute-mine, one of the many weapons at the exhibition. There are two mines here, one suspended above the other.

Bastille Day rites for French patriot-priest killed by Nazi mine in Normandy. Altar boys lead the funeral procession through Barfleur on Bastille Day July 14, 1944, for Abbe Jules Gaslonde, French priest killed by a mine left by the Nazis in their retreat before Allied forces. Note the Allied officers saluting at lower right. Former vicar of a village near St. Lo, Abbe Gaslonde was transferred when ...

The Scorpion in action. Land mines are neutralized by this new flail device, called the Scorpion. Chains several feet long are attached to a steel cylinder mounted on a tank. When the tank is in motion, the cylinder revolves and the chains beat the ground, exploding mines at a safe distance.